So I hate the orange interior in my Maxima, especially now that my radio is blasting out that beautiful Alpine blue color. I'm itching to change out some bulbs or something and move to blue illumination inside of the car. Toss in some LED bulbs to change the stock lamp colors and I think it could be epic for the Maxima interior. I also want to do the A/C controls but I might have to live with the orange screen for my A/C display. (I'm working on that though)

Any thoughts? Anybody seen any kits or anything?

 

I thought about this too! Seems like it would be alot of work though.

 

Unfortunately i'm sure it'd be just as painful as changing the color in my 350z was. Soldering new resistors and leds on the dash boards = not fun

 

yes it is the same as that alot of soldering it wouldn't make sense but I'm not sure when you buy the car if you can ask them to make it custom blue or w.e you want

 

yeah that custom color would be cool...they should give like a few options red / blue / white / orange / pink / purple / black lololol

maybe a little to many colors but you get the point

 

I was afraid of that. I suppose i'll just wait for a kit to come out or figure out something else. I'd want to do everything, even the power window switches and such. It's definitely going to be a lot of work! Who knows, maybe that will make it all that more special to me and I'll make it my winter project.

Seeing as you've done this before, got any advice for those of us who might want to try it?

 

I waited years for a dash kit to come out for my 350 and it never did so i'm not holding my breath on that one.

Just take your time and be careful. The door switches and such are easy, it's the dash that's a pain in the *** since you have to take the needles off etc etc. Also the 350 had a RPM rev indicator to accurately sync the RPM needle back to. I'm not sure if our maxs have that. Also different colors draw different amounts of current so the color you pick is going to determine what resistors you need to get. Really it's the dis/assembly that's more tedious than the actual soldering.

In the 350 i also had an alpine head unit so i didn't have to worry about that so i have no experience with that. I'm sure it's the same process, but i haven't taken a factory head unit apart to be sure.